Bloomfield, NM 87499 Frost Dates
87499, near Bloomfield, NM: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/12, roughly 257 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 147 days after the last spring frost.
Bloomfield sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bloomfield's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Bloomfield's last frost
05/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bloomfield against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 147 frost-free days, Bloomfield places 35,886 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NM, it ranks 301 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 87499: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bloomfield can differ from the 87499 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Bloomfield's frost date answer different questions.